Shadows of the Eternal Developer Arrested For Child Porn, 'No Longer Affiliated' With the Studio

Kenneth McCulloch, a developer at Precursor Games—the developers who want to create a sequel to Eternal Darkness—is now facing child pornography charges according to Bullet News Niagara and the Niagara Regional Police Service.

McCulloch is being charged with "one count each of possession of child pornography, making child pornography available and accessing child pornography," to be specific.

I saw a comment on Joystiq from someone saying they had actually smiled at this story because he thought they "finally caught Dyack red-handed."

I think that speaks volumes itself for how sick some of Dyack/Precursor's haters are. Or perhaps they were trolling.

Anyway, it's good for the studio to distance themselves from someone like that, but it sucks that people are going to connect the two anyway. I get it, they have a shady history; but for goodness' sake, just let them make their damn game.

At this point people see him as the villain or even a conman. Ill just state a few known things about him and Sillicon Knights.

-They sued Epic games for their own inabilty to create a good game, then got counter sued for using a modified Unreal 3 engine that they advertised as their own. -They used a big part of the budget and developers of an xmen game they were developing for Activision for their own project Shadows of the Eternal(codenamed back in the day as Eternal Darkness 2) just Like Gearbox did with the Aliens:CM budget. -According to various ex-developers the guy was a nightmare to work for and ran the company like a dictator.

People don't like him because he made a lot of bad business decisions for them when they were still known as Silicon Knights and as a result they wound up losing a lot of money and made some lackluster games in the process.

The thing is Dyack is no longer apart of their business department and only works on the games now. So I don't see what the hell people are whining about at this point.

You heard it here. I'm apparently Denis Dyack because I don't move in the same direction as an angry mob.

Great argument. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that I simply don't understand why people hate this company so much. I get that people hate Dyack for making bad corporate decisions, but he's no longer with the company. So again, what the hell is worth complaining about at that point?

And I'd like an actual answer instead of crap like your comment or more phantom disagrees.

Seriously, why is the shadows of the eternals image on this article? This game has nothing to do with child porn or getting arrested, it needs to be replaced with a pic of the person that was arrested. Really game journalists, get your [email protected] together and stop slandering this games name.

I think a better thing to say would be just because there was one sicko working at the studio doesn't mean the entire staff should be condemned. And it seems a lot of Dyack's haters are using this as a means to further attack the team in question.

Its funny because allot of the worlds greatest authors were pleny fucked up,even for their Era's moral standards.yet many people still praise them today for their intelligence and impact on the world,but if this gets out it will do nothing but be a bad name for video games.

Yes that is the logic, But unfortunately not everyone is as logical as You and I. Example :DK rises Colorado shooting, They found out the guy played Mass affect, Everyone tries to put the blame on Video games. Someone shares and owns child porn... People find out he Develops video games,some fingers will be blindly pointed at video games.

Problem is there would be no society left. Yes, this crime is henious. So is murder. And rape. And violent robberies, car jacking, home invasion and hate crimes. People strung out stealing my car stereo. Workers at companies who dump toxins in our well water. Big tobacco. The pharmaceutical industries pushing stuff on people who don't need it.

Take them all away and there would be you and frank from accounting left on the planet.

He hasn't been accused of anything that's debatable. He had actual child porn in his possession. Now if you want to defend a pedophile go right ahead. I personally find that behavior detestable and its a crime not only against children but also against society at large and humanity.